After completing a few shoots I decided that I should explore different ways of presenting my imagery. To do this I thought that by editing the best selection into a black and white format to increase their contrast it would allow me to further look at how I could compose future images regarding the book I will be making. What I wanted to achieve through this was a traditional straight photographic image, due to colour being a rarity at the time leading photographers to produce photographs in monochrome. To create the results I want I will be using the software Adobe Photoshop as it provides a huge variety of tools that will be able to help me adjust each photo to the requirements wanted. Here is the process behind my editing: After I had experimented with a variety of different black and white settings I then proceeded to select the best images that the effect worked on. The results I wanted needed to be high contrasted and produced an impacting technique that defined the landscape through shadows surrounding the subjects within. Here were my choices for the best outcome for the black and white experimental edits: I found that the results of these edits were successful as the monochrome effected added the desired amount of shading for the landscape it surrounded, whilst providing a more straight photography stance that emphasized the destruction of the landscape in more detail due to them being devoid of any colours to distract you. For me this produced an aesthetic result that complimented the topic well as it draws to light the issues at hand in more detail.